The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-05-06
MINNESOTA NEWS.

/ iChCIuciit iOubc
Preston Martin of Waseca gets a PEN
sion, with 81 900 of arrears.
| Eli Nelson is charged with the murder
of Nels Johnson at Minneapolis.
| The salary of the city attorney of Min
neapolis has been increased to $4,000.
| Worthington will give 100 acres on the
banks of Okebena Lake for the soldiers
home.
i A new barrel manufacturing company
has been organized at Winona, with
capital of 100000.
Henderson is the first town on deck
for 1887 with preparations for a 4th of
July celebration.
| Jno. Wampach, pioneer and promi-
nent business man of Shakopee, died
Saturday morning.
Hon. L. l.. Wheelock, Department
Commander G.. A. r., will dever the
memorial Grafton at Kasson.
/ L. j. Robinson, dealer in general
merchandise, Window, assigned yester-
day. Liabilities 50 900; assets $1,000.
Wheat in all the southern counties is
coming up finely and the rains of the
past week have proved beneficial.
i The students of Lake View Academy,
near Sank Centre, planted over five hum
dred evergreens on "Arbor Day."
The Hersey-Bean lumber company at
saltwater suffered $25, 900 loss by the
burning of one of its mills Saturday.
i Geo. Storms, Minneapolis lumber
dealer, has made an assignment. Liza
bilities, about $40, 900, with small assets.
The Herald says half the telegraph
poles between Owatonna and Waseca
were blown down during the storm last
Friday.
An unknown man was run over and
killed by Cannon Valley train last Fri
day near Red Wing. Supposed to be a
tramp.
Miss Clara Mucky and Edward Car
son, of Hastings, have been adjudged
insane and placed in the asylum at Ro-
chester.
A dispatch from Fairmont states that
reports are reaching that place of the
death of many cattle from exposure in
the recent storm.
The new local freight rates on wood
and stone to Waseca are reduction
from the old, and interested parties are
pleased accordingly.
Two buildings were struck by light
ming during thunder storm at st. Cloud
Saturday. Both buildings had suffered
a similar experience before.
Fred. Heiden and Jacob Stoke, two
farmers, quarreled near Winona Satur-
day, and Heiden was shot by Stoke
during the trouble. Wound not fatal.
Philo Woodruff, an old citizen Of Wa
SEGA county, who once represented the
county in the Legislature, is dead at the
age of ~. He was man ofgreat general
information.
Later reports from interior towns show
That the damage from Sunday nights
wind storm was quite extensive. Cannon
Falls, Rochester, Wabasha, and many
other places report causalities.
Fire destroyed two aristocratic bagnios
at Duluth, together with the raiment,
ljewelry, and furniture belong to the 30
or more inmates, who had but little in
surance. Loss about $1,000. Incenciary.
John Olaf, aged As, and employed by
the Empire Lumber Co., Winona, drove
by a mill Wednesday morning. His
team became frightened, ran away, and
Olaf was thrown from the wagon and
instantly killed.
The residence of Gustav Newman
at New Ulm, caught fire yesterday, and
was consumed. A furious wind was
blowing, and it was only by the efforts
of the fire department that an extensive
confagration was averted.
Austin has organized company of
500, 900 capital to work its clay beds,
which will put Austin pressed brick of
the finest quality on the market in 80
days. Pottery, terra Gotta, putty and
paint will also be made.
The eleventh annual session of the
state lodges of the A. o. U. w. will as
semble at Rochester Tuesday. Those
present will number nearly two hum
dred and will be the guests of Ashla
lodge, the largest lodge in this State or
Dakota.
/ A confidence man who gives the name
of III. G. Mackenzie has with some sue
cess imposed upon clergymen at Fergus
Falls, Alexandria and other points,
with plausible story about stolen
horses, obtaining small sums. He was
arrested at Moorhead.
The Duluth board of trade, in an adj
dress to the president, calls attention to
the magnitude of commerce between
the American and Canadian northwests
and urges that the freedom of trade be-
tween the two countries be not restrict
ed if it can possibly be avoided.
A farmer in Rice county last Saturday
found a litter of 8 young wolves, which
he captured and took home, where he
kept them until Monday, when he
brought them to the county auditor and
received bounty amounting to $50 for the
lot. During the two days the animals
were in his possession he fed them on
milk, which they ate readily.
Some of our exchanges oppose the en-
forcment of the new law in this State of
fering bounty for the destruction of
blackbirds on the ground that if these
feathered pests are destroyed, a greater
evil will come In their stead. 1t will be
well, at least, for the county commits
sioners to assure themselves that black
birds are such an evil as to require their
wholesale destruction before they autho-
rize bounty for the same.
Fdirmont Sentinel. Rev. Mr.. Williams
passed three head of cattle, on his return
from Blue Earth City this week, lying by
roadside dead, which had persisted in
the storm of Friday and Saturday. He
was told that IA head died out of one
herd in that vicinity. We hear reports
from many parts of the county of cattle
dying in the storm. They had, in most
cases, just been turned out to grass, and
the change from warm stables to that
cold storm of rain and snow chilled